The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-20
securltyp 1t Is simply out of the quss-

| 1eCuIlLyI AO ID bluply OuV VI tuo quoo'
tiOn.
Both the great parties In their last
National platforms pledged themselves
10 reform In taxation, and yet we are
still sailing under the war rates OF the
war-tariff Before the war the tariff rate
was not quite 10 per cent; In 1866, when
highest IL was, over 48 per cent, and II
is now over 46 per cent; so that we are
still under war tariff rates. Secretary
Manning, In his late annual report, a
most able and mastery document, thus
extracts from the Democratic platform:
Public life will cease to be the amhi
tiOn of honorable and worthy men, If
the deliberate pledges and prOfessed
principles of political parties are not q
law for their leaders. Discharging, II
might, whatever hostility of tone, now
irreleVe 1t, 1t contains, desire to refer
to the record Of one public obligation
thus assumed, and thus accepted and
made binding by the last general popular
vote:
PLEDGE TO REDUCE TAXES.
Unnecessary taxation Is unjust tax
alton. II Surplus (taxStion) o.
b100000000 has yearly been collected
from suffering people. y We
denOunce the Republican party for
having failed to relieve the people from
crushing war taxes which have para
" zed business, crippled industry, and
deprived labor of employment and OF
| Just reward.
Under long period of Democratic
rule and policy, our merchant marin
vas fast OVertaking, and on the point o.
Outstripping, that of Great Britain. Un
der twenty years of Republican rule and
pOlicy our commerce has been left to
British bottoms and the American flag
has almost been swept off the seas.
Under Democratic rule and policy,
our merchants and sailors, flying the
stars and stripes In every port, success
fully searched out market for the
varied products of American industry
Ulder quarter Of century of ReDub-
lican rule and policy, despite our mani
fest advantages over all other nations
in high-paid labcr, favorable climates
and teeming soils; despite freedom o.
trade among all the Uuited States;
despite their population by the foremost
races Of men, and an annual immigrs
ion Of the young, thrifty, and adventur-
GUS of all nations; despite our freedom
here from the inherited burdens OF life
and industry in Old.wOrld mOnarchies,
their costly war naVies, their vast tax
consuming nOn-pTOducing standing
armies; despite twenty years of peace,
that Republican rule and policy have
managed to surrender to Great Britain,
along with our commerce, the control
OF the markets of the world.
"Instesd OF the Republican party's
discredited scheme and false pretenCsof
friendship for American labor, expressed
by imposing taxes, we demand, III behalf
OF the Democracy, freedom for Ameri-
can labor by reducing taxes, to the end
that these United States may compete
with unhindered powers for the Drimscy
among nations in all the arts Of peace
and fruits Of liberty"
These pledges can never be fulfilled
without q reform IN thu sum and meth
Ods of Federal taxation. Nor can our
country ever profit fully by its incom
parable advantages among the nations
of the earth In population, peace, land,
and liberty 80 long Rs we go on plead
ing infancy, and swsddle, in med@Vsl
rags, Its victorious energies. 1t Is these
which need release and liberty. All our
requisite taxation may bs made an easy
garment. We have made prison of it,
plRstered stiff with obsolete contentious
about protection aad free trade